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Jun 18, 2019, 3:17 pm

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Dodge DeBoulet

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Originally Posted by javabytes

It works fine from SMS Message Center too. The problem is your extra characters. Just punch in the ten digit number, no parentheses, spaces, or dashes... just like the format you see above in the DID field.

I did, just as I stated in the post you quoted (repeated below).

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dodge DeBoulet

Nope, that's not it but I figured it out ... you and @javabytes are using the mobile web portal. I've been using the SMS Message Center. That apparently limits you to address book entries only, asI've tried it with and without a leading "1", dashes, parentheses, and spaces. If it's not in my address book I get this:

Through the Mobile Portal it works fine.

Mystery solved ...

Here's a screenshot of it failing with just the 10 digit number. I forgot that I had saved it:

So ... the really weird thing is, even though I'd had the issue above this morning, I'm not having it now. The 10 digit number is working and it's sending texts just fine via the message center.

Last edited by Dodge DeBoulet; Jun 18, 2019 at 4:43 pm

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